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Taking the stage in matching all-black, zip-up satin jackets and dark skinny denim, Miike Snow looked like members of some sort of Orthodox Hipster cult. The long beards sported by two members didn't dissuade the comparison.
And the faithful tur...

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Standing elbow to elbow last night with people going out of their minds in front of the live stage, it was easy to forget that Pretty Lights' first Miami show was at the Vagbaond, just over two years ago. In October 2009, the then-cult Colorado pro...

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Neon Indian's Alan Palomo.
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The collective celebration of electronic dance music (otherwise known as Ultra Music Festival) finally kicked off yesterday at Bayfront Park. And a few hiccups aside, everything seemed to go smoothly. We had gotten so ...

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If you've only ever raved and raged with Ultra Music Festival while totally naked and home alone with your laptop, a 12-inch glowstick, and the fest's live YouTube stream, then it's fucking time to physically visit Bayfront Park.
Just think of e...

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It'd be an understatement to say New Order's performance at Ultra Music Festival last night was a rare treat.
Instead, it was a benchmark for Ultra's ultimate booking muscle and its massive importance on the local concert landscape. Let's be re...

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Check out Crossfade's daily party guide -- plus WMC and MMW's fifteen best parties.
Good morning, beat freak.
Over the last seven days, you've gotten down with a genderqueer rapper in Overtown, raged at each and every free fucking party on t...

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Electro warrior Wolfgang Gartner threw down a killer closing Friday-night set at Ultra Music Festival. But just 24 hours earlier he could hardly imagine being in our fair city -- let alone enjoying it.
The LA-based DJ vented some negative vibes ...

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Performance-wise, no Kraftwerk show is really more special than any other. The band's very German mastery of automation, precision, and repetation renders the men on stage as close to robots as their Man-Machine album would suggest. To say one Kraf...

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Winter Music Conference is known for one type of music in
particular. Whether you call it house, or call it electronic music, there's no
denying its prevalence in Miami every late March. This is the week of the DJ.
On Thursday, the genre of music...

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Like water draining from a home plate backstop aquarium, the little respect we have left for the Florida Miami Marlins continues to dwindle.
Enraging fans has seemingly become a common practice among the organization's front office--robbing Mia...

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Even though Ultra Music Festival's lineup and set times are conveniently and instantly available via the fest's official app, we here at Crossfade wanna highlight three two reasons why all y'all beat freaks might need an easily printable, plain-tex...

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Say it slowly, how it looks, and one syllable at a time: Tahn-starts-bandit.
What does it mean? Well, if you mean the word, Tonstartssbandht as a single unit of signifyin' and communicatin', well, then it means horseshit. As in nothing.
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When you're Tisto, a 43-year-old superproducer who's accomplished, like, everything ... How do you even drag your ass outta bed in the beat-freaking morning and then uhntz-uhntz off to work?
Honestly, if we here at Crossfade had won DJ Mag's T...

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Claude VonStroke cookin' up beats at the Dirtybird BBQ.
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Dirtybird BBQ
With Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, and the rest of the crew
Villa 221, Miami
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Better Than: Any other company barbecue in existence.
Everyon...

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Ultra Music Festival seems like it's all fun, games, and "2-hot-4-u" LARPers in furry boots.
But in actuality, this three-day electronic music extravaganza is a cross between the Pleasuredome and the Thunderdome.
And there's no better illustr...

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Last night's heaving, multi-room party thrown jointly by L.A.-based Smog and Miami-based Basshead was intense in every aspect.
The volume was at 11. The revelers' energy was at 11. The level of confusion trying to get around the sprawling downt...

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Check out Crossfade's daily party guide -- plus WMC and MMW's fifteen best parties.
Are you ready to spend the next three days penned inside the gates of Bayfront Park like some kinda wild, half-naked, EDM-addled party animal?
With just 18,00...

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It's a question that really comes into focus during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week.
If the end game of capital-D Dance music is supposed to be getting everybody grooving together, why are there so many divisions? Why do ...